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universe163 books1923

Fantasy, set in secondary world.

“Before the seas were bent and the mountains raised, there was Music — and from that Music came Arda, and in the west of Middle-earth the long defeat and stubborn hope of those who dwell there.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Fellowship of the Ring →

includes The History of Middle Earth, The Fall of Gondolin, The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The History of the Lord of the Rings

Fionavar UniverseSeries

series5 books1984

Epic fantasy and portal fantasy, emotional in tone, set in contemporary.

“Kay lived in the countryside near Aix-en-Provence, the setting of Ysabel, while he wrote it.”
from the catalogue

Start with The Summer Tree →

KarouSeries

series4 books2011

Emotional in tone.

“From copyright page: Seventeen year old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters - the chimerae who form the only family she has ever known.”
from the catalogue

Start with Daughter of Smoke & Bone →

FillorySeries

series7 books2009

Portal fantasy, about magic schools, set in contemporary.

Start with The Magicians →

ShannaraUniverse

universe50 books1977

Epic fantasy.

“Long after the world we know has burned itself to slag in the Great Wars, the Four Lands rise green over the bones of the old age.”
from the catalogue

Start with Imaginary Friends →

includes Word and the Void, The Genesis of Shannara, Voyage of the Jerle Shannara, The Fall of Shannara, The First Druids of Shannara, Heritage of Shannara, A Shannara Trilogy Prequel, Legends of Shannara

Dominion of the FallenSeries

series16 books2015

Dark fantasy, about angels, set in early 20th century and europe.

“The House of Shattered Wings opens Aliette de Bodard's Dominion of the Fallen in a Paris devastated by a magical war between rival Houses of fallen angels, its streets and ruins still haunted by the fighting.”
from the catalogue

Start with The House of Shattered Wings →

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